Although it was August there was a fire. There were few evenings of the year when a fire was not agreeable at Long Fells; and one was certainly agreeable on this especial evening. The day had been rainy. The whole house seemed dark and damp. A few logs that had been laid on the top of the coal fire sputtered4 and smoked drearily5. My lord sat in a large high-backed chair, which nearly hid his diminutive6 figure from view, except on the side of the fireplace. His head was sunk on his breast; his hands were plunged7 deep into his pockets; his legs were stretched out towards the hearth; his whole attitude was undignified. It was such, an attitude as few of his friends or acquaintances had ever seen him in, for it was nearly impossible for Lord Seely to be unconscious or careless of the effect he was producing in the presence of an observer.
He was now absorbed in thought, and was allowing his outer man to express the nature of his musings. They were not pleasant musings, as any spectator would at once have pronounced who should have seen his posture11, and his pursed mouth, and his eyebrows12 knitted anxiously under the bald yellow forehead. The entrance even of a footman into the room would have produced an instant change in Lord Seely's demeanour. But no footman was there to see his lordship sunk in a brown study.
At length he raised his head and glanced out of the window. It had ceased to rain, but the drops were still trickling13 down the window-panes from the points of the ivy leaves; and it was already so dark that the firelight began to throw fantastic shadows from the quaint9 old furniture, and to shine with a dull red glow on the polished oak panels. Lord Seely rang the bell.
"Has Mr. Errington returned?" he asked of the servant who appeared in answer to the summons.
"Not yet, my lord."
"Tell them to beg Mr. Errington, with my compliments, to do me the favour to step here before he dresses for dinner."
"Yes, my lord."
"Don't light that lamp! or, stay; yes, you may light it. Put the shade over it, and place it behind me. Draw the curtains across the window. Take care that my message is given to Mr. Errington directly he comes home."
The servant withdrew. And Lord Seely, when he was left alone, began to walk up and down the room with his hands behind him. Thus Algernon found him when, in about ten minutes, he appeared, rosy14 and fresh from his ride.
"I must apologise for my muddy condition," he cried gaily15. "Pawkins and I rode over to Applethwaite to get something for Castalia that was found wanting at the last moment. And I am splashed to the eyebrows. But I thought it best to come just as I was, as your lordship's message was pressing."
"Thank you. I am much obliged to you, Ancram. It is not, in truth, that there is any such immediate16 hurry for what I have to say, that it might not have waited an hour or so; but I thought it likely that we might not have so good an opportunity of speaking alone together."
Lord Seely seated himself once more in the high-backed chair, but in a very different attitude from his former one. He was upright, majestic17, with one hand in his breast, and the other reclining on the arm of his chair. But on his face might be read, by one who knew it well, traces of trouble and of being ill at ease. Algernon read my lord's countenance18 well enough. He stood leaning easily on the mantel-shelf, tapping his splashed boot with his riding-whip, and looking down on Lord Seely with an air of quiet expectation.
"I have been having a serious conversation with Castalia," said my lord, after a preliminary clearing of his throat.
Algernon said, smilingly, "I hope you have not found it necessary to scold her, my lord? The phrase, 'Having a serious conversation' with any one, always suggests to my mind the administering of a reprimand."
"No, Ancram. No; I have not found it necessary to scold Castalia. I am very much attached to her, and very anxious for her happiness. She is the child of my favourite sister."
The old man's voice was not so firm as usual when he said this; and he looked up at Algernon with an appealing look.
Algernon could be pleasant, genial19, even affectionate in his manner—but never tender. That was more than he could compass by any movement of imitative sympathy. He had never even been able so to simulate tenderness as to succeed in singing a pathetic song. Perhaps he had learned that it was useless to make the attempt. At all events, he did not now attempt to exhibit any answering tenderness to Lord Seely's look and tone of unwonted feeling, in speaking of his dead sister's child. His reply was hard, clear, and cheerful, as the chirp20 of a canary bird.
"I know you have always been extremely good to Castalia, my lord. We are both of us very sensible of your kindness, and very much obliged by it."
"No, no," said my lord, waving his hand. "No, no, no. Castalia owes me nothing. She has been to me almost as my own daughter. There can be no talk of obligations between her and me."
Then he paused, for what appeared to be a long time. In the silence of the room the damp logs hissed21 like whispering voices.
"Ancram," Lord Seely said at length, "Castalia is very much attached to you."
"I assure you, my lord, I am very grateful to her."
"Ahem! Castalia's is not an expansive nature. She was, perhaps, too much repressed and chilled in childhood, by living with uncongenial persons. But she is responsive to kindness, and it develops her best qualities. I will frankly22 own, that I am very anxious about her future. You will not owe me a grudge23 for saying that much, Ancram?"
"I never owe grudges24, my lord. But I trust you have no doubt of my behaving with kindness to Castalia?"
"No, Ancram. No; I hope not. I believe not."
"I am glad of that; because—the doubt would come rather too late to be of much use, would it not?"
Algernon spoke25 with his old bright smile; but two things were observable throughout this interview. Firstly, that Algernon, though still perfectly26 respectful, no longer addressed his senior with the winning, cordial deference27 of manner which had so captivated Lord Seely in the beginning of their acquaintance. Secondly28, that Lord Seely appeared conscious of some reason in the young man's mind for dissatisfaction, and to be desirous of deprecating that dissatisfaction.
At the same time, there seemed to be in Lord Seely an undercurrent of feeling struggling for expression. He had the air of a man who, knowing himself to have right and reason on his side in the main, yet is aware of a tender point in his case which an unscrupulous adversary30 will not hesitate to touch, and which he nervously31 shrinks from having touched. He winced32 at Algernon's last words, and answered rather hotly, "It would be too late. Your insinuation is a just one. If I had any misgivings33 I ought to have expressed them, and acted on them before. But the fact is that this—the final arrangement of this marriage—took me in a great measure by surprise."
"So it did me, my lord!"
Lord Seely had been gazing moodily34 at the fire. He now suddenly raised his eyes and looked searchingly at Algernon. The young man's face wore an expression of candid35 amusement. His arched eyebrows were lifted, and he was smiling as unconcernedly as if the subject in hand touched himself no jot36.
"I give you my word," he continued lightly, "that when Lady Seely first spoke to me about it, I was—oh, 'astonished' is no word to express what I felt!"
A dark red flush came into Lord Seely's withered37 cheeks, and mounted to his forehead. He dropped his eyes, and moved uneasily on his chair, passing one hand through the tuft of grey hair that stood up above his ear. Algernon went on, with an almost boyish frankness of manner:
"Of course, you know, I should hardly have ventured to aspire38 to such an idea quite unassisted. And I believe I said something or other to my lady—very stumblingly, I have no doubt, for I remember feeling very much bewildered. I said some word about my being a poor devil with nothing in the world to offer to a lady in Miss Kilfinane's position—except, of course, my undying devotion. Only one cannot live altogether on that. But Lady Seely was very sanguine39, and saw no difficulties. She said it could be managed. And she was right, you see. Where there's a will, there's a way. And I am really to be married to Castalia to-morrow. It seems too good to be true!"
Lord Seely rose and faced the young man; and as he did so, his lordship looked really dignified8; for the sincere feeling within him had for once obliterated40 his habitual41 uneasy self-consciousness.
"Ancram," he said, "I am afraid, from what Castalia tells me, that you are greatly dissatisfied with the position I have been able to procure42 for you."
"Oh, my lord, Castalia ought not to have said so! If she can content herself in it for a time, how can I venture to complain?"
"I am sorry to find," continued Lord Seely, "that your circumstances are more seriously embarrassed than I thought."
"Are they, my lord? I profess43 I don't know how to disembarrass them!"
"You are in debt——"
"I had the honour of avowing44 as much to your lordship when my marriage was first discussed; as you, doubtless, remember?"
"Yes; and you named a sum which I——"
"Which your lordship was kind enough to pay. Certainly."
"But it now appears that that sum did not cover the whole of your liabilities, Ancram. Castalia tells me that you have been annoyed by applications for money quite recently."
Algernon smiled, and put his head on one side, as if trying to recall a half-forgotten fact. "Well," said he at length, "upon my word I have forgotten the exact sum which I did name to your lordship, but I have no doubt it was correct at the time. The worst of it is, that my debts have this unfortunate peculiarity—they won't stay paid!"
"It is a great pity, Ancram, for a young man to get into the habit of thinking lightly of debt. It is, in fact," continued his lordship, growing graver and graver as he spoke, "a fatal habit of mind."
"My dear lord, I don't think lightly of it by any means! But, really—is it not best to accept the inevitable45 with some cheerfulness?"
"'The inevitable,' Ancram?"
"Yes, my lord; in my position, debt was inevitable. I could not be a member of your family circle, a frequent inmate46 of your house, doing the things you did, going where you went, without incurring47 some expense."
It was no want of tact48 which made Algernon speak thus plainly and coarsely. He did not fail (as his mother might have done) to perceive that his words pained and mortified50 his hearer. He would by no means have aimed such a shaft51 at Lady Seely, knowing that nature had protected her feelings with a hide of some toughness; and knowing, moreover, that my lady would unhesitatingly have flung back some verbal missile, at least equally rough and heavy. But my lord was at once more vulnerable and more scrupulous29. And although Algernon was the last person in the world to be guilty of gratuitous52 cruelty, yet, if one is to fight, one had best use the most effective weapons, and take advantage of any chink in the enemy's armour53 to drive one's javelin54 home!
"I regret," said Lord Seely, with a little catching55 of the breath, like a man who has received a cold douche, "I deplore56 that your intimacy57 with my family should have led you into a false position."
"Not at all, my lord! My position in your family has been a very pleasant one."
"I ought, perhaps—it was my duty—to have inquired more particularly into your means, and to have ascertained58 whether they sufficed for the life you were leading in London. You were very young, and without experience. I—I reproach myself, Ancram."
"Don't do that, my lord! There is really no need. I'm sure nobody is the worse for the few pounds I owe at this moment: not even my tailor, who has cheated me handsomely, doing me the honour to treat me as one of your lordship's own class!"
Lord Seely bent59 down his grey head and meditated60 with a pained and anxious face. Then he looked up, and said:
"You know, Ancram, that I am not a rich man for one in my station."
Algernon bowed gracefully61.
"Had I been so, I should have made a settlement upon Castalia; but, although I have no daughters of my own to provide for," (with a little sigh) "yet my property is very strictly63 tied up. There are claims on it, too, of various sorts——" ("Lady Seely screws all she can out of him for that nephew of hers," was Algy's mental comment.) "And, in brief, I am not in a position to command any large sums of ready money. I believe I said as much to you before?"
Algernon bowed again and smiled.
"Well, I repeat it now, in order to impress on you the fact, that neither you nor Castalia must look to me for pecuniary64 help in the future."
"Oh, my lord——"
"I do not say that Castalia might not have a right to ask such help of me; but I merely assure you that it will be out of my power to grant it. You, perhaps, scarcely realise how poor a man may be who has a fairly large rent-roll?"
"I think I have begun to realise it, my lord."
Lord Seely looked quickly into the young man's face, but it was smiling and inscrutable.
"Well," he resumed, "I will only add, that for this once, and presuming your present debts are not heavy——"
"Oh dear no! A trifle."
"I will discharge them if you will let me have the amount accurately65. I have a great repugnance66 to the thought of Castalia—and you—beginning your married life in debt."
"A thousand thanks. It will be better for us to start fair."
"I hope, Ancram, that you will use every endeavour to live clearly within your means, and to make the best of your circumstances. The fact is, this marriage has been hurried on——"
Algernon did not answer in words; but he gave an expressive67 shrug68 and smile, which said, as plainly as possible, "I have not hurried it on!"
Lord Seely coloured deeply, and seemed to shrink bodily, as if he had received a blow. He went on hastily, and with less than his usual self-possession: "I—I have felt, rather than perceived, a—a little touch of bitterness in your manner lately. There, there, we will not quibble about the word! If not bitter, you have not been, at all events, in the frame of mind I wished and hoped to find you in. You are young; and youth is apt to be a little unreasonable69 in its expectations. I own—I admit—that your worldly position will not be—a—exactly brilliant. But I assure you that in these days there are many gentlemen of good abilities, and industry, who would be glad of it."
"Oh, I am fully62 aware of my good fortune, my lord! Besides, you know, this is only a stepping-stone."
"Yes; we—we hope so. But, Ancram—and this is what I had in my mind to say to you frankly—don't neglect or despise the present employment, in looking forward to something better."
"By no means!"
"For your own sake—your own sake, I earnestly advise you not to give way to a feeling of discontent."
"Do I look discontented? Upon my word, your lordship is doing me singular injustice70!"
"There is a smiling discontent, as well as a frowning discontent: and I don't know but that it is the worst of the two."
Algernon laughed outright71.
"Well," said he, "you must own that it is a little difficult to give satisfaction!"
His light smooth tone jarred disagreeably on Lord Seely. If the latter had thought to make any impression on the young man, to draw from him any outburst of feeling, he had signally failed. Algernon's words could not be objected to, but the tone in which they were uttered was completely nonchalant. His nonchalance72 increased in proportion to Lord Seely's earnestness. A year ago Algernon would have brought his manner into harmony with my lord's mood. He would have been grave, attentive73, eager to show his appreciation74 of my lord's kindness, and his value for my lord's advice. But now there was some malice75 in his smiling good-humour; a little cruelty in the brightness of his unruffled serenity76. He was genuinely tickled77 at seeing the pompous78 little nobleman embarrassed in speaking to him, Algernon Errington, and he enjoyed what comedy there might be in the situation none the less because his patron suffered.
In truth, Algernon was discontented. His was not a gnawing79, black sort of discontent. He neither grew lean, nor yellow, nor morose80; but his irony81 was sometimes flavoured with acidity82; and instead of being easily tolerant of such follies83 as zeal84, enthusiasm, or fervent85 reverence86, he was now apt to speak of them with a disdainful superiority. And he had, too, an air of having washed his hands of any concern with his own career; of laying the responsibility on Destiny, or whomsoever it might concern; of awaiting, with sarcastic87 patience, the next turn of the wheel—as if life were neither a battle nor a march, but a gigantic game of rouge-et-noir, with terrible odds88 in favour of the bank.
Lord Seely was no match for this youth of two-and-twenty. Lord Seely had intended to impress him deeply; to read him a lecture, in which Olympian severity should be tempered by mercy; to convince him, by dignified and condescending89 methods, of his great good fortune in having secured the hand of Castalia Kilfinane of Kauldkail; and of his great unreasonableness90 (not to say presumption) in not accepting that boon91 on bended knee, instead of grumbling92 at being made postmaster of Whitford. But in order to make an impression, it does not suffice to have tools only; the surface to be impressed must also exist, and be adapted to the operation. How impress the bright, cool, shining liquid bosom93 of a lake, for instance? Oar49 and keel, pebble94 and arrow, wind and current, are alike powerless to make a furrow95 that shall last.
Lord Seely laboured under the disadvantage, in this crisis, of feeling for other persons with some keenness; a circumstance which frittered away his power considerably96, and made him vacillating. Algernon's capacities for feeling were, on this occasion, steadily97 concentrated on himself, and this gave his behaviour a solid consistency98, which was felt even beneath the surface-lightness of his manner.
"I hope," said Lord Seely, rather sadly than solemnly—"I do most earnestly hope, Ancram, that you will be happy in this marriage!"
"Your lordship is very good. I assure you, I feel your goodness."
He said it as if he had been accepting an invitation to dinner.
"And—and that you will do your best to make Castalia happy?"
"You may rely on my doing my best."
"There are discrepancies99, perhaps—disparities—but but those marriages are not always the happiest in which the external circumstances on both sides seem to be best matched. You are young. You are untrammelled. You have no irrevocable past behind you to regret. I do not see—no, I do not see why, with mutual100 regard and respect, you should not make a good life of it."
"These are the most lugubrious101 nuptial102 felicitations that ever were offered to a bridegroom, I should fancy!" thought Algernon. And he had some difficulty in keeping his countenance, so vividly103 did he feel the ludicrous aspect of his lordship's well-meant effort at "impressing" him.
"I should feel some sense of responsibility if—if things were not to turn out as brightly as we hope—and believe—and believe they will turn out."
"Oh, don't distress104 yourself about that, my lord!" cried Algernon. (He had very nearly said "don't apologise!") "There is the dressing105-bell," he added, with alacrity106, taking his hat up from the table. "If your lordship has no further commands, I think I——"
"Yes; go, Ancram. I will not detain you longer. Remember," said Lord Seely, taking the young man's hand between both his own, and speaking in a tremulous voice, "remember, Ancram, that I wish to serve you. My intention all along has been to do my best for you. You have been a very pleasant inmate in my home. Ancram, be good to Castalia. For good or for evil, you are her fate now. No one can come between you. Be good to her."
"My dear lord, I beg you to believe that I will make Castalia's happiness the study of my life. And—oh, I have no doubt we shall get on capitally. With your interest, it can't be long before we get into a better berth107. I know you'll do your best for us, for Castalia's sake; oh, and mine, too, I am happy to believe. Yes, certainly. I really am in such a state of mud that I believe my very hair is splashed. It will take me all the time there remains108 for dressing to get myself presentably clean, positively109. Au revoir, my lord. And thank you very, very much."
With his jauntiest110 step, and brightest smile, Algernon left the room.
Lord Seely returned to his chair before the hearth, resumed his moody111, musing10 attitude, and sat there, alone, with his head sunk on his breast until they called him to dinner.
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